Dave Eggers

Una novela siniestramente verosímil sobre los peligros de la era digital. El día que Mae Holland es contratada para trabajar en el Círculo, la empresa de internet más influyente del mundo, sabe que se le ha concedido la oportunidad de su vida. A traves de un innovador sistema operativo, el Circulo unifica direcciones de email, perfiles de redes sociales, operaciones bancarias y contraseñas de usuarios dando lugar a una unica identidad virtual y veraz, en pos de una nueva era de civilidad y transparencia. Mae esta entusiasmada con la modernidad y la actividad de la compañia, las espaciosas oficinas de diseño, las cafeterias acristaladas y las acogedoras instalaciones del campus. Cada dia se celebran fiestas, conciertos al aire libre y actividades deportivas. Hay clubs de todo tipo, e incluso puede visitarse un exclusivo acuario de peces exoticos de la fosa de las Marianas. Mae se siente afortunada de formar parte del centro del mundo, a pesar de que se aleje cada vez mas de su vida fuera del campus y de que su rol dentro del Circulo acabe siendo del dominio publico. Lo que empieza como la fascinante historia de ambicion e idealismo de una mujer se convierte en una trepidante novela de suspense que plantea cuestiones tan vitales como la memoria, el pasado, la privacidad, la democracia y los limites del conocimiento humano.Reseñas:Eggers ha puesto su estilo y su pulso narrativo al servicio del tecnothriller: un escritura energica y eficaz.Time Una parabola sobre los peligros de la era digital. Eggers nos recuerda como la utopia digital puede conducir a la "dataficacion" de nuestra vida diaria, como la creencia en la sabiduria de la mayoria puede hundirnos enel decreto de las masas, como abrazar la idea de comunidad puede llevarnos a la anulacion del individuo.The New York Times El Circulo es una habil y moderna sintesis de ingenio swiftiano y pronosticacion orwelliana [...], un trabajo tan relacionado con nuestro tiempoque podria ser considerado la observacion satirica mas acertada del principio de la era de internet.The Guardian Fascinante [...]. Eggers consigue que nos suba la adrenalina [...]. Una novela de ideas [...]. Puro entretenimiento, pero del estimulante.Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books La mayoria nos imaginamos el totalitarismo como algo que se impone, pero ¿y si fueramos los complices en nuestra propia opresion? Este es el escenario de la ambiciosa, aterrorizante y siniestramente verosimil nueva novela de Eggers [...]. Las comparaciones con Un mundo feliz y 1984 seran inevitables.Booklist Ambientada, valiente y audazmente, en un futuro no muy lejano, la novela es en parte satira y en parte thriller corporativo. Perosobre todo es una historia que nos alerta sobre las amenazas contra la privacidad, la libertad y la democracia.USA Today

The electrifying follow-up to Dave Eggers' New York Times Bestseller The Circle'Gulpable fictive entertainment . . . Eggers is a wonderful storyteller with an alert and defiant vision' ObserverWhen the world's largest search engine / social media company merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known: The Every.Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Kavakian, they look for the company's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free?Studded with unforgettable characters and lacerating set-pieces, The Every blends satire and terror, while keeping the reader in breathless suspense about the fate of the company - and the human animal.'More playful and satirical than Orwell . . . it scores as a series of brilliant set pieces and a devastating overall critique.' Sunday Times

The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the worlds most powerful internet company, she feels shes been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the companys modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae cant believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the worldeven as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one womans ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf In any other era, he would be considered a boy In 2007, he is considered willful and deranged His home life is problematic His parents are divorced; his father, immature and romantic, lives in the city His mother has taken up with a younger man who steals quarters from the change bowl in the foyer...

Featuring fourteen stories, this book includes jungle warfare, boomerang tycoons, track-team romances and advice-giving animals. Dividido en catorce historias, este libro incluye guerra en la selva, empresarios del boomerang, romances trepidantes y animales consejeros.

"McSweeney''s 27" comes to you as three separate books in a windowed slipcase, presenting six possible faces to the world in order to best match your home decor. Book One plunges into the greyish, faintly understood area of the art world, involving oddly drawn objects coupled with uncertainly-spelled text. Book Two is a never-before-seen seventy-two page sketchbook by the legendary Art Spiegelman. Book Three collects new stories by Stephen King, Jim Shepard, and more.

« Valentino n'a pas huit ans lorsqu'il est contraint de fuir Marial Bai, son village natal, traqué par les cavaliers arabes, ces miliciens armés par Khartoum. Comme des dizaines de milliers d'autres

Una historia conmovedora, asombrosa y genial es el relato autobiográfico de Dave Eggers en el que cuenta cómo tras la muerte de sus padres tiene que hacerse cargo de su hermano pequeño.Tras la muerte de sus padres, Dave se encuentra de un dia para otro al cuidado de su hermano Toph, de ocho años. Lo que en principio parece un acontecimiento devastador se transforma en un revulsivo: la vida esta llena de infinitas posibilidades y el mundo es un lugar demasiado grande y excitante como para hacerlo esperar, asi que Dave vende la casa familiar y emprende con su hermano un viaje por carretera en busca del sol californiano.Con su primer libro, estas memorias noveladas, Dave Eggers atrajo inmediatamente la atencion de la critica internacional e inauguro su estilo narrativo, lleno de juegos literarios. Cargada de ternura y sentido del humor, Una historia conmovedora, asombrosa y genial es un canto a la vida y la juventud.Reseñas:Una obra virtuosa, grande, atrevida, maniaco-depresiva, que anuncia ruidosamente el debut de un nuevo escritor lleno de talento, si, lleno de un asombroso talento.Michiko Kakutani,The New York TimesLa fuerza y la energia que atraviesan este libro podrian mover un tren.David SedarisEn este libro Eggers crea algo universal, algo crudo y real y maravilloso que trasciende cualquier espiritu de epoca y consigue tratar mordazmente temas importantes que a menudo resultan demasiado desalentadores para escritores jovenes; mortalidad, juventud, el artificio de escribir. Este es un libro hermosamente conseguido, que arranca carcajadas y resulta completamente inolvidable.San Francisco Chronicle

Quand Mae Holland est embauchée par le Cercle, elle n’en revient pas. Ce géant d’Internet relie e-mails, réseaux sociaux et transactions bancaires dans un système universel, clé de voûte d’une sociét

Discover a stunning new children''s tale from the bestselling, Pulitzer-nominated author of Heroes of the Frontier and What Is the What. When things fall down, who lifts them up? What if the ground beneath your feet was not made of solid earth and stone but had been hollowed into hundreds of tunnels and passageways? What if there were mysterious forces in these tunnels, mere inches below you as you sit in class or eat a banana? What if it were up to just two kids to stop these forces? What would it feel like to know the fate of an entire town rested on your shoulders? Twelve-year-old Gran Flowerpetal is about to find out. When Gran''s friend, the difficult-to-impress Catalina Catalan, presses a silver handle into a hillside and opens a doorway to underground, he knows that she is extraordinary and brave, and that he will have no choice but to follow her, and help her save the town (and the known world). With luck on their side, and some discarded hockey sticks for good measure, they might just emerge as heroes.

Heroes of the Frontier is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness.

From the bestselling author of The Circle comes a brilliant new black comedy about modern America.A mother and her two young children rent a battered old RV (optimistically christened the ''Chateau'') and embark upon a journey through the Alaskan wilderness. At first their trip feels like a vacation: they spot wild animals, build bonfires, enjoy the scenery. But as Josie drives her kids deeper into the forest, dodging wildfires and increasingly eccentric locals, we learn more of the events that forced her to escape her old life. Fraught with unexpected encounters from the sublime to the ridiculous, her tiny family must survive this surreal adventure at all costs, in order to finally discover something clean and redemptive out at the very edge of civilization.Heroes of the Frontier is a captivating and hilarious novel about family, loss and recovery, and a powerful examination of contemporary American life.

From Dave Eggers, best-selling author of "The Circle, "a tour de force of dialogue and dark humor, coursing emotions and tight control." Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? "is the formally daring, brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking solutions the only way he knows how. What do you do when you re full of questions: what happened to missions to the moon? Why spend a trillion dollars on war? Where did America go wrong? If you re Thomas, a young man nursing migraines and a lack of direction, this calls for drastic action. To find some answers, Thomas kidnaps a NASA astronaut and brings him to an abandoned military base on the edge of the California coast. Then the questioning begins. The answers must be honest. The back and forth might even hurt. It might get uncomfortable. But eventually the truth will emerge."

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the worlds most powerful internet company, she feels shes been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the companys modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae cant believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the worldeven as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one womans ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter''s college tuition, and finally do something great.In this critically-acclaimed novel, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy''s gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and a moving story of how we got here.

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter''s college tuition, and finally do something great.In this critically-acclaimed novel, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy''s gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and a moving story of how we got here.

on to be a major motion picture directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Tom Hanks, Tom Skerritt, and Sarita Choudhury.In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter''s college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy''s gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment--and a moving story of how we got her

Don't you worry, son. Whatever it is that's been killing the sailors, I will kill it." In this science-fiction classic - reimagined by Dave Eggers in modern times, and from the point of view of the fourteen-year-old Consuelo - the famous oceanographer Pierre Arronax sets sail from New York. His aim: to hunt down a mysterious sea-monster which has been terrorising the oceans, wrecking ship after ship and causing countless deaths. But they discover an even stranger truth: the 'sea-monster' is in fact a submarine, captained by Nemo, and he is living in self-imposed exile in international waters. Consuelo and Arronax join Nemo on the submarine, and so begin their exciting adventures...